Childhood Hero Gifts

'This is my toughest soldier -- He's been through Mom's vacuum cleaner eight times!'

Frank moonlights as a Grill Sergeant.

'Call for you on the cream corn line.'

'I don't know what 'peer pressure' is, but it makes a GREAT excuse!'

Babies vs. Dogs

We tried rocking her to sleep, but she still seems tired and cranky.

"Soon you'll be sucking your thumb AND tying your shoes...they call it multitasking."

Mother feeds messy child with extra long spoon.

'I've never opened her up on the highway, but I get great mileage in the city!'

'Does this get me a purple heart?'

"Being the smartest girl in third grade is going to Melinda's head."

'Sometimes I wish we'd never told him he was adopted.'

'We're doing the right thing, Bob, Let Andy solve problems with bullies at school his own way,,,'

"It turns out I just wasted the whole morning networking with a dog."

Statue of Liberty from the Staten Island Ferry trip.

"I've always wanted to live on a lake so I can go boating and fishing. Since we don't live on a lake, I thought I'd make my own."

"The one time in our lives when it's acceptable to run around naked, but they dress us up like L. L. Bean catalog."

'You put it down for five seconds. I get it now.'

"There's my very first school - where I learned how to hug."

"Every time I tie my shoes, the laces come undone...I think it's a conspiracy!"

"It's childhood. Your child has childhood."

"If you wear these caps backwards, they keep the sun out of your eyes."

"It's different when they're your own."

'Billy takes his jungle gym seriously!'

'Well, Jimmy, it's your turn to go get it.'

"He's retreated into nationalism."

Emergency Slide Height Limit.

'Your imagination was so powerful he became real. It happens to me all the time.'

Planner at work.

A pediatrician with children hanging off his arms

Introducing Peter's Cousin - Murray Pan - The Boy Who Refused To Stay A Child

"My family's been working this land for at least 400 years...!"

It had been a good life, filled with passion and joy, tender bonds, and finally one irretrievable error.

"No, son, there's no severance package."

Knight of the sandcastle.